Manhattan Special
Recipe: #24197
June 27, 2016
Categories: Beverages, Non-Alcoholic, 5 Ingredients Or Less, One-Pot Meal, Fat Free, Gluten-Free, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegetarian, Water, Sugar, more
"This is an iconic NYC beverage. I would say, buy the real thing! But for purposes of Culinary Quest 3, going to try this homemade version, side by side with a bottle of the real thing that I've been hiding from DH for a month. Sounds very, very interesting!!! Makes 4 10 oz servings. NOTE: Time does not include fermentation and chilling time - 2 days! This will NOT be as sweet as the real Manhattan Special, but it DOES have a stronger coffee flavor. Adjust to your liking!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (340.2 g)
- Calories 166
- Total Fat - 0.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.1 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 21.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 41.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.1 g
- Sugars - 37.6 g
- Protein - 0.8 g
- Calcium - 39.5 mg
- Iron - 1.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Boil 1 cup of water with the sugar, remove from heat and stir in the espresso powder.
Note: to be more like the real thing (super sweet), use a full cup of sugar.
Step 2
Add the remaining cold water to the hot syrup, sprinkle in the yeast and pour the whole mess into a plastic soda bottle (it won’t fill the bottle, the extra room is for carbonation gasses).
Step 3
Cap tightly and leave at room temperature for two days then stick in the fridge long enough to chill.
Step 4
*It’ll have a huge foamy head like a stout beer when you crack it open, just squeeze that out of the bottle to get to the good stuff. This recipe makes a strong coffee flavor but not too sweet version. Tweak espresso powder and sugar to taste.*
Tips
- Plastic soda bottle